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Thursday, 30 November 2017

It's time for another challenge over at As You Like It and this fortnight's theme is to showcase project
using your favourite animal (and don't forget to tell us why please).

I love most animals, but I have to say dogs are a favourite, especially seeing as I have two of them! Dogs can be so loyal and affectionate and also funny, if mine are anything to go by.

For my card I've used Party Pup by LOTV. I found this stamp on Ebay a while ago and I think there are 2 others in the set, which I would love, so if anyone has the others and wants to part with them I would be glad to take them off their hands :). I've coloured him with copics and the LOTV sentiment is stamped in gold metallic ink. I've used gold mirri card and a snippet of green paper for the top piece. There's also some glitter on the little parcel.

The sponsor for this challenge is

with a £10 voucher for the lucky winner

If you'd like to pop over to the challenge here you'll be able to see the lovely inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Monday, 27 November 2017

It's time for the final challenge of the year over at Christmas with the Cuties and the theme is "Santa Claus" so we would love to see any of your cute projects featuring Santa Claus.

This is my card featuring a LOTV stamp and some of their retired paper. I coloured him with copics and added some glitter to his furry bits. The sentiment is from digistamp boutique and the flower is a Sue Wilson poinsettia die.

The sponsor for this challenge is

with a prize for the lucky winner

I hope you'll be able to join in this final challenge of the year and if you'd like to visit here you'll be able to see the lovely inspiration from the rest of the team.

Thursday, 16 November 2017

I'm back again as it's time for another challenge over at As You Like It and the theme for this fortnight is to showcase a project using your favourite Christmas colour combination (and don't forget to tell us why please).

For wintery outside scenes I like either blue and white or lilac and aqua, which is what I have chosen.
I think I've already used this colour combination as a favourite for a non-Christmas card, but it is a combination that looks good for anything. They are very pretty colours, but also look cool enough for a wintery feel.

The sponsors, Polkadoodles, kindly provided the team with images and I chose Winnie Winterland - Frosty the Snowman. I coloured them with copics and used retired LOTV Snow Princess paper. The edges of the papers have had texture paste and glossy accents added with glitter sprinkled on.

I had a little disaster in that the flower in her hat was the last thing to be coloured and the red pen sprinked on the image!!! Luckily I've managed to get rid of it with the blender pen. I'll have to be more careful in future.

The lucky winner of the challenge will receive a 3 digi stamp voucher from

so if you'd like to pop over to the challenge here you'll be able to see the lovely inspiration from the rest of the team.

Tuesday, 14 November 2017

I have a second card to share using the Stampin Up Snow Swirled tree. I've stamped and embossed this one, together with the sentiment from the set, in a copper colour.

It's a fairly simple card, cutting the image out with my unbranded die and using soft sheen copper card and some beautiful paper from First Edition. The ribbon which, for some reason, looks darker in the photo than it actually is was added and that was it.

The photo doesn't do it justice I'm afraid as the holly on the paper is more of a copper colour than it shows. I hope you like it.

Thursday, 2 November 2017

It's time for another challenge at As You Like It and for this fortnight we would like you show us a project using your favourite of either Christmas or non-Christmas (and don't forget to let us know why please).

My favourite is definitely Christmas cards. I love adding all the glitter etc and I can make them all the year round when I don't have much else on.

For this card I used the cute LOTV image and coloured him/her with copics. The sentiment is also LOTV and the paper is from a First Edition pad. I cut the Dee's Distinctively tree from Desert Storm cardstock as white seemed too bright and then I coloured parts of it with green pen and lathered the rest with glitter. There's also glitter on the hat and pom poms.

The sponsor of this challenge is

with a £10 voucher for the lucky winner

I hope you can join us and if you pop over to the challenge here you'll be able to see the inspiration from the rest of the team.

Wednesday, 1 November 2017

My favourite type of cards to make are christmas cards and I am pleased tell you that I have joined Sparkles Christmas Challenge as part of their design team. The theme for this month is "More than one Fold". I decided to go with a z-fold as I haven't made many fancy folds so thought I'd better keep it straightforward!

I've been wanting this Stamping Up stamp set for ages and found it fairly recently at a reasonable price. It is retired so seems to go quite high on auction sites.

I embossed the tree stamp in silver and cut it out with an unbranded die set I bought. They do cut very well, but can be a little on the thin side. The Inkylicious sentiment was also cut with the same die so it matches the top one when closed. I've used soft sheen silver card and pearlescent white for the flower die, which is from Sue Wilson.

I hope you'll be able to join in with the challenge and if you'd like to pop over here you'll be able to see the lovely inspiration from the rest of the team.

About Me

I live with my lovely hubby and two little Cavaliers. I have gone through various craft phases over the years including dressmaking, embroidery and cross stitch, but have only been making cards since 2015 and have been addicted ever since!